THE GOVERNMENT: Flat Findings

Ever in the rip tide of pressure groups, Washington during the past month
was the scene of a unique Battle of the Pressagents.
Sitting in judgment was an emergency Fact-Finding Board of three
appointed by Franklin Roosevelt to decide whether railroad
managements were justified in imposing a general 15% wage cut (TIME,
April 25, et seq.).

Daily in the dingy caucus room of the old House Office Building railroad
presidents laid bare the shambles of railroad economics, railroad
labor representatives snarled that labor was not to blame, should not
pay the penalty....